IS 145 Law & Humanities Academy

Kelly Russell (facilitator)
School Year 2008 - 2009

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Happy Holidays to the Reading Clique Girls.

Monday, December 15, 2008

MOVIES IN THE MORNING


We will be viewing The Prince & Me with Julia Stiles Friday, December 19th during period 1. Remember to bring your breakfast and snacks. The movie starts promptly at 7:55, so be on time so you don't miss anything.
This film is also open to the boys bookclub.

Due to the snow storm, I'll be postponing the film until next Tuesday morning at 8AM.


Monday, December 8, 2008

December 9th Meeting

We will be meeting tomorrow during period 1. Remember to bring materials to work on your scrapbooks.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Characterization: Raisin Rodriguez

What do you think of Raisin so far?

I feel bad for her because she seems to be trying so hard to fit in and falling short. I felt especially bad when she went up to the table at the restaurant thinking that the birthday cake was for her and it was for one of the other girls. How embarrassing!

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Strategies

October 16, 2008: Collecting Text-to-Self Connections in our Journals

October 23, 2008: Collecting Interesting and Unknown Words in our Journals

October 29, 2008: Collected more words. Collecting information about Raisin. Read up to page 100.

November 5, 2008: We played scrabble with some of the words we collected from the novel. We need to look closely at Raisin and what she is like. Respond to blog entries. Read up to page 130.

November 12, 2008: We played scrabble again and discussed the book. Continue reading up to page 149. In your butterfly and flower journals, list all the characters in the book so far. Write a short description of each character and anything you've noticed about those characters.

Friday, October 24, 2008

NEW MEETING DATE

Hi all,

We will be moving our book club to Wednesday Mornings from 7:55 - 8:40. Remember to bring your breakfast or a snack. See you next week.

Mrs. Russell : )

Monday, October 6, 2008

First Meeting

Due to the vacation day this week, we will have our first meeting a week from Thursday, October 16th during period one.